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by @levelsio
Joined November 2006
- pieter™ reposted
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- pieter™ reposted✨ 7 years after I set up a Quake III server, I have it running again, but now in the web browser, much easier 😊 👉 q3.pieter.com 👈 Back in 2019 we'd play a fork of Quake III called OpenArena in a Bali villa with @daniellockyer @marckohlbrugge @dannypostma
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🔫 I set up an OpenArena DM server (free version of Q3), if you wanna join: server is 128.199.152.194, download OpenArena for Win/Mac/Linux @ openarena.ws - pieter™ repostedSaw this on Hacker News today: Someone reverse engineered a game from 1983 called 📈 Wall Street Raiders, it was 115,000 lines of BASIC so indecipherable that even Disney couldn't figure out how to wallstreetraider.com/story.html It's essentially a very deep granular trading simulator
00:00 - pieter™ reposted✨ Added dark mode to my HTTP proxy at http.pieter.net That also makes it really nice to read stuff like Hacker News and other things in the evening on a Kindle The Kindle browser is really slow and a Kindle itself is just a super low specced device so using my HTTP
00:07✨ Okay I went a bit crazy and also spoofed the DNS for altavista(.)com And then I rebuilt the homepage with Claude Code based on screenshots of it because I couldn't even find an actual HTML source of it anymore (not even on WaybackMachine) First it wrote it in <div>'s but old - pieter™ reposted✨ Okay I went a bit crazy and also spoofed the DNS for altavista(.)com And then I rebuilt the homepage with Claude Code based on screenshots of it because I couldn't even find an actual HTML source of it anymore (not even on WaybackMachine) First it wrote it in <div>'s but old00:00
01:38✨ Today I rebuilt 🏔️ AltaVista Search, the main search engine before Google existed The problem: if you press the 🔍Search button in MSIE4 it'll open a sidebar with AltaVista in it that opens: http:// home . microsoft . com/search/search.asp But that URL doesn't resolve - pieter™ reposted✨ Today I rebuilt 🏔️ AltaVista Search, the main search engine before Google existed The problem: if you press the 🔍Search button in MSIE4 it'll open a sidebar with AltaVista in it that opens: http:// home . microsoft . com/search/search.asp But that URL doesn't resolve00:00
02:20 - pieter™ reposted✨ Added a CRT curvature distortion to @pieter now It takes the Em-DOSBox <canvas> and processes it in WebGL and builds a new <canvas> with the distortion of a classic CRT screen which had this convex curvature (like an old TV) even though the screen itself was square I had00:00
- pieter™ reposted🎄 Added Christmas lights to pieter.com 🌌 Remember those cosy days when you had time off school and you just computered 🥹🥹🥹
01:08🗞️ More new email features on pieter.com You now get the daily news report sent in your email (and updated hourly) I don't really like to read the news, but this is a fun way, cause it's all in plain text inside Windows 3.11 😊 Written as a Python cron robot by AI - pieter™ reposted💾 Okay having nobody online to chat on AIM is boring So I asked AI to write an AOL Instant Messenger bot called @pieterbot, and I made an account for it, and it one-shotted it in Python and IT WORKS!!! So now you can chat on AIM on pieter.com with an LLM that is
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00:49💾 I got AOL Instant Messenger working in 2025!!! 🤯 I installed aim.exe on pieter.com and I connected to a reverse engineered retro AIM server You can login and it works and you can actually message people, in this case I don't know anyone else on this server so I - pieter™ repostedOne of my dreams came true today: Apple MacOS 7.1 on dialtone.live is now connected to Windows 3.11 on pieter.com via the internet thanks to @SiliconForested's work My dream was other people would also start building web-based vintage computers (like
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00:16Replying to @levelsio and @AOLYou know what this means..... This means that virtual 90s Mac Users on Dialtone can now talk to virtual 90s Windows users on Pieter.com ! dialtone.live - pieter™ reposted🗞️ More new email features on pieter.com You now get the daily news report sent in your email (and updated hourly) I don't really like to read the news, but this is a fun way, cause it's all in plain text inside Windows 3.11 😊 Written as a Python cron robot by AI00:00
💌 Sending emails on pieter.com also works again It's a massive undertaking because Eudora from 1995 only supports port 25 but Hetzner blocks port 25 So me and @bai0 had to IPTABLES forward the port 25 in the ISP to 587 to make it work But now you can send and - pieter™ reposted🎶 Every good 1995 PC needs some absolute MIDI bangers to play while you dial up on your 28k8 modem So I installed Yamaha's MIDI Jukebox on pieter.com It has a full mixing desk and you can change the pitch and more importantly BPM!!!!!! Even has 🇧🇷 Bossa Nova
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01:06🤓 You can now read live Hacker News on pieter.com via Gopher Gopher is the old internet protocol that was kind of a precursor to the web, it ran on port 70 instead of 80, and was pretty similar to the web, also live pages with hyperlinks but more limited You can
